The freedom in question also includes the freedom to create and host free speech relays and free speech clients. And I think the presence of free speech relays is necessary for effective overall censorship resistance.
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It's getting easier to do this all the time.
To be clear, I was referring to public, general use, "free speech" relays, with expressly permissive policies, as opposed to running one's own relay for one's own notes, which is also a good idea but a different thing.
None could guarantee those relays wouldn't censor, but if there were enough of them, and people preferred them, the overall resistance would be good.
Nostr isn't for everything. For many tasks a central database works better. By a similar principle, platforms which aren't by design technically censorship resistant should have free speech policies and users should prefers platforms that do.
There's nothing stopping anyone from doing exactly that, many already do.
You're free to fire one up as well, no permission needed!
I agree, of course, I wan't suggesting anyone was preventing anyone from doing it.
In fact, I'd love to see relays run by existing free speech organizations, as it would be well within the mission of furthering this fundamental human right.
It is one way to do it.
I think making relays easier to run, and having more of them is a better solution though. Having single large relays run by someone else makes points of failure that could be exploited. They would increase centralization.
If people are instead running their own relay, on their own server, desktop, or phone the network becomes more resilient, and harder to take down. Maximize decentralization.
